About: Torbjørn Marø

Torbjørn (also known as 'tormar', 'tormaroe', or 'T-MAN') is a Norwegian programmer born in 1976. He has a passion for code quality, programming languages, and mentoring. He practices TDD, and calls himself a generalist and a Software Craftsman.

The Languages

Main: C#, Ruby, JavaScript
Secondary: Clojure, Erlang (and more..)
Excited about: Rebol
In the past: Java, VB 6, PHP, PLSQL

The Blog

Torbjørn has been running a blog about programming for several years at blog.kjempekjekt.com, posting two original articles every week on average. He blogs in Norwegian.

Community

As a board member at the Bergen chapter of Norwegian .NET User Group Torbjørn tries to be an active part of the programming community. He also participates in the Bergen CodingDojo group, and joined the program committee for the Norwegian Developers Conference 2012.

He's also active on various forums and Q&A sites like diskusjon.no, freak.no, and stackoverflow.

Work

Torbjørn works as a team leader and senior developer at PSWinCom, a company specializing in telecom services. Have a look at the LinkedIn profile for a full résumé.

The Code

You can find various pieces of code Tobjørn has written on github. There are also some traces of him on CodePlex and Google Code.

Interests

Besides his biggest hobby - programming - Torbjørn is interested in how the world in general, and humans in particular, work. I.e. natural sciences, psychology, religion, history, etc.

He's also a devoted husband and a father. And he enjoys good music and movies of many genres.

Social

You would most likely want to interact with Torbjørn on twitter, where he's known as @tormaroe. You'll also find him on facebook, google+, and on many other networks.